Monday, January 23, 2012

WOW!! ( this word is exactly how I feel about today's clinic session!)

My goal for clinic today was to get through an OD and scale one quad. I had a patient today who I had never met before. I first of all had to start out by doing a new health history form, which took quite awhile because my patient had so many different medications she was on, and my patient was telling me her whole life story. I began my extra and intra exam everything went well. Then my patient informed me that her main goal for this app. was to get x-rays, which is great because I already had us scheduled in the X-ray room. As we waited for our turn, I started to probe, when all of the sudden my pt flings forward and said she felt nauseous, and explained to me she had never felt like that before, so I let her sit there for a minute, then she said she felt better and that we could continue. Then she informs me that she needs to leave by three, which shortens a half hour of my time ( dang it). So at that moment I realized we weren't going to get to scaling a quad. So then we took x-rays and I had to retake one, then I had just a few minutes left to get an OD check before the patient had to leave.
I feel like a could of accomplished a lot more in this clinic session if my patient would of been a little more cooperative. My patient was really nice, but she really liked to talk a lot. I pretty much heard her life story ( and as a student I don't have time to hear all about life, I don't want to be mean, but that is just how it is)! Then I felt like I had valuable time taken off, when she felt sick (which she found out it was the patient glasses we make them wear that made her sick ;) ). When she had to leave earlier too, it was kind of frustrating. I just felt like a lot of valuable time was wasted.
For my next experience, I don't really think I would change anything, I think everything went smoothly on my end, except the one retake. I just felt there was a lot of wasted time with the patient talking.

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